INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN...292

                                         INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN… 292

                                                    Dr K Prabhakar Rao

{ Gandhi, Patel and Nehru  are seen   at New Delhi at Parliament street and are walking  and chitchatting.}

Gandhi.. Patel. What are the news? I could not read a news paper to day.

Patel. What new news will be there Bapu? We can expect  some  new scam every day.

Gandhi. Good. You  hit at the bull.

Nehru. Bapu. Why have sadistic opinions always?

Gandhi. Why bother ? He said truth. I believe in truth.

Patel. Bapu.  To day, there was news in news paper that Railway minister and his relation were involved in a railway scam in giving various influential posts.

Gandhi. One point is clear.  Where ever money can be generated fast, scams  always occur, More over committing scams appears to be the dharma. Otherwise, how they will get popularity and media attention?

Patel.  Purchases,  contracts, allotting chairmanships, ministries, always attract  scams. The crooked guys always aim at such places. I heard that Police stations and excise stations in most of our states are annually auctioned under hand.

Gandhi. Bofors scam, Helicopter scam, Tatra scams  and many defense scams occurred while purchasing. 2 G scam occurred  in contracting stage. Laloo scam took place in animal fodder. Now coal scam is also at contracting.  I think we can write a book on these scams. Jawaharlal, You are book writer. You wrote some books. Why can not you take up this task? It should be titled A text book   and  treatise on scams.

Nehru. Me ? No.. No  Bapu.

Gandhi. I suddenly remember. What happened to Lalu? He was found guilty.

Patel. Everything is in cold storage now. Nothing will be decided at courts in India. Laloo is happy. He was railway minister too.  He is now MP too.  They know that nothing can happen to them.  ( Sings and does jig waving hands)

Laloo knows Indian ways  very well

He goes around happy like William tell

Court cases are stored in a rusty bin

Lo! Finally he will be freed from all sin

Gandhi. Haa..Haa…. Ha. Well said Patel.

Nehru. You guys keep praising each other.

Gandhi. Jawaharlal, Relax, Appreciate his poetry.

Patel. Bapu. Do you think the  rail minister will be sacked?

Gandhi. Usual practice in Congress party is that they will not own up. They will  hang on.  If they leave, Opposition will gain upper hand.

Patel. True. Look Bapu, In AP too  some more ministers including the one from Home portfolio is blamed in cases relating to  contracts for mines , lands etc. But they are happy in the chairs. They say they will resign, and also know that they will not be relieved. Tamasha goes on.

Gandhi. Only few more months are left for elections. Why loose perks and  other things. Keep hanging as long as possible. Finally all will be forgotten. What happened to Bofors case? haa..haa.haa

Patel. Hoo.. ho..hoo..

Nehru. You guys are anti govt all the time. Did you speak any thing good about govt?

Gandhi. Look bhai. I shall speak good if something good is there. When all crap  goes on  how and why should  I sing their praise/ Any how I shall sing. Listen.

The govt guys are very good

They are efficient in their trade

 Their trade is  scams galore

And they want their power never to fade

Patel. Haa..haa..haa . Very well sung Bapu.

Nehru. Is this the praise Bapu?

Patel. He praised their good qualities.

Nehru. There is no point in discussing with you guys. You are biased.

( In the mean time a cyclist passing by gives them the latest news paper)

Patel ( looking into paper). Bapu. The rail minister has gone.

Gandhi. Where?

Patel. He has been  sacked. ( Does jig)

At last the guy is sacked

 Who was in  some shady trouble

His kin has made plenty of money

 While he reduced the govt to a heap of rubble.

Gandhi.  Congress party high command could not swallow the thing. They were caught very badly. Any how they did something when things were inescapable. But this is a small fish. Big fishes are still hanging. Usually a ships captain will always go down with the sinking boat. That is the tradition. Let us wait for the boat to sink. It is already battered badly.

Patel. Haa..haaa..haaa No one can change destiny. But the guy is dreaming to become captain for third time.

Gandhi. Dreaming is every ones right. Let him keep dreaming till the guy gets rude jolt.

Patel. True.

Gandhi. I think we must go from here. This is not a safe place. We are near parliament.There will be many eyes watching us.

Gandhi. True. But we are not terrorists.  Any how, let us go.

(The trio hastily  walks off)

                             CURTAIN FALLS